National regulators and those involved in the nuclear industry say monitoring social media to ensure the public gets accurate information has become an essential part of their work.

“When events like this happen, we have someone here monitoring social media,” Sheehan said. “We monitor for rumor control to stop erroneous information from getting out so as not to scare the public.”

Situations such as these are why Seabrook Station’s parent company, NextEra, located in Juno Beach, Fla., now has people within its communications team monitoring social media and correcting misinformation when needed.

PRAGUE, Dec 3 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will seek to convince Czech leaders of the advantages of picking U.S. firm Westinghouse over a Russian rival as the contractor for a $10 billion nuclear reactor project in meetings in Prague on Monday.

U.S. officials traveling with Clinton to Prague said the Temelin nuclear power project could bring as many as 9,000 jobs to the United States and would help diversify the Czech Republic's energy supply away from Russia.

Westinghouse, a unit of Japanese firm Toshiba Corp, is competing with Russia's Atomstroyexport, which is bidding in a consortium with a Russian-owned Czech group. [link to www.nucpros.com] .

Starting Monday at a church in Courtice, near Oshawa, Ontario Power Generation will make the case for performing a multi-billion-dollar mid-life refit of its Darlington nuclear generating station.

And the hearings by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will give opponents of nuclear power a chance to state their views.

Dozens of groups and individuals who both oppose and support the project have already lined up to address the hearings.

It’s a massive undertaking to overhaul the station’s four reactors, work that will extend the life of the station until mid-century. Two years ago, Ontario’s ministry of energy gave a ballpark cost estimate of $6 to $10 billion. [link to www.thestar.com] .

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government said Monday they will seek to complete the removal of all fuel assemblies inside the No. 4 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by the end of 2014, a year earlier than initially planned.

The schedule was moved up amid lingering concern over the condition of the unit that stores 1,533 fuel assemblies in its spent fuel pool, the largest number among the four damaged units at the plant. The upper part of the unit's building was severely damaged by a hydrogen explosion last year. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28515904

Complete..? Attempt to remove is more fitting.

Big dreams...

They will need to pick up the pace, slightly.That pesky radiation is slowing them down.

[snip]With a major active fault called Urazoko already confirmed to be located around 250 meters from reactor buildings, it is feared that other faults running underneath the reactors could move in conjunction with the Urazoko fault.

If the Nuclear Regulation Authority decides that the reactors are sitting above faults that could move in the future, the plant's Nos. 1 and 2 reactors are unlikely to be allowed to resume operation and may be scrapped.

@Waterbug,Fukushima alone is already bad enoughbut with the Bs Reports from Cp and justthe Headlinez from you it become really bad,much more bad than in the Reality!

Why do you really want to do this?Why do you need to create even more fear?Do you know that normal People have a limitand when there even comes more they justclose them self up and avoid this Topic,this should not happen but you can do whatever you want because it is your Threadbut accept my Critique!

@Waterbug,Fukushima alone is already bad enoughbut with the Bs Reports from Cp and justthe Headlinez from you it become really bad,much more bad than in the Reality!

Why do you really want to do this?Why do you need to create even more fear?Do you know that normal People have a limitand when there even comes more they justclose them self up and avoid this Topic,this should not happen but you can do whatever you want because it is your Threadbut accept my Critique!

The only one who get a benefit is the NuclearMachinery but not us!

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28909669

Look..

The news orgs. are in it for the money, in most cases.They attract viewers.. sell ads..Of course they are going to sensationalize a bit..That is a given.. I don't write the headlines.

To say that my posting headlines and links is adding to the fear is ludicrous..This isn't kindergarten.

And, anyway... people NEED to be shocked into reality.Video games, porn and TV are fantasy.This is real..

With all of the pro-nuke rhetoric floating around..A little counter-balance is appropriate.Most reasonable people will seek the middle ground.

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

i also find this paradigm of reporting extremely interesting. on the one hand we are scolded no matter what we report... and yet there are only a handful of people willing to take the burden on...

bug, sweden, ene-news, sfk, caldicot, iroi, fairwinds, myself, abc news australia et al... of course we derive information from these sources as they are the small amount of reporters scouring the internet for the scant pieces of information and linking them in a timely manner....

i shudder to think of where the world's voice would be if you took this little legion away....

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

i also find this paradigm of reporting extremely interesting. on the one hand we are scolded no matter what we report... and yet there are only a handful of people willing to take the burden on...

bug, sweden, ene-news, sfk, caldicot, iroi, fairwinds, myself, abc news australia et al... of course we derive information from these sources as they are the small amount of reporters scouring the internet for the scant pieces of information and linking them in a timely manner....

i shudder to think of where the world's voice would be if you took this little legion away....

Quoting: Citizenperth

you dont get it do you?you are not a reporter, you dont go to ground zero and do your research,Youve never even been toi Japan.You simply cherry pick information that meets your "fear" agenda and then you come to GLP and give negative titles to your threads and "were all fucked, hate Japan" opinions/summaries.

Your just playing a game, you are not a Fukushima reporter.You and all the people posting on Fukushima aren't achieving anything.

you must be one dim individual to still be getting kicks out of this monotonous game you play.

i also find this paradigm of reporting extremely interesting. on the one hand we are scolded no matter what we report... and yet there are only a handful of people willing to take the burden on...

bug, sweden, ene-news, sfk, caldicot, iroi, fairwinds, myself, abc news australia et al... of course we derive information from these sources as they are the small amount of reporters scouring the internet for the scant pieces of information and linking them in a timely manner....

i shudder to think of where the world's voice would be if you took this little legion away....

Quoting: Citizenperth

you dont get it do you?you are not a reporter, you dont go to ground zero and do your research,Youve never even been toi Japan.You simply cherry pick information that meets your "fear" agenda and then you come to GLP and give negative titles to your threads and "were all fucked, hate Japan" opinions/summaries.

Your just playing a game, you are not a Fukushima reporter.You and all the people posting on Fukushima aren't achieving anything.

you must be one dim individual to still be getting kicks out of this monotonous game you play.

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

i also find this paradigm of reporting extremely interesting. on the one hand we are scolded no matter what we report... and yet there are only a handful of people willing to take the burden on...

bug, sweden, ene-news, sfk, caldicot, iroi, fairwinds, myself, abc news australia et al... of course we derive information from these sources as they are the small amount of reporters scouring the internet for the scant pieces of information and linking them in a timely manner....

i shudder to think of where the world's voice would be if you took this little legion away....

Quoting: Citizenperth

you dont get it do you?you are not a reporter, you dont go to ground zero and do your research,Youve never even been toi Japan.You simply cherry pick information that meets your "fear" agenda and then you come to GLP and give negative titles to your threads and "were all fucked, hate Japan" opinions/summaries.

Your just playing a game, you are not a Fukushima reporter.You and all the people posting on Fukushima aren't achieving anything.

you must be one dim individual to still be getting kicks out of this monotonous game you play.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29033256

bored????.. stop playing...

"go to ground zero"? LMAO.. even their robots can't... got it?

here's a tip.. stop clicking the link ;) you'll be happier, less stressed and ranty, which will improve your resistance to radiation....

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

A very critical factor in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima is stress and corrosion on metal parts of the reactors themselves and also the spent fuel and fuel pools. In this paper we look at corrosion factors and also the actual pipes in use at Daiichi for the ongoing watering effort.--snip--

Summary

TEPCO faces a major challenge to keep these existing pipes clear and working for the next 10 years. We did not find any records of these pipes being replaced at units 1-3 at Fukushima Daiichi NPP. The feedwater and core spray rings inside the reactors were replaced as part of the shroud replacement work that was done at units 1-3 between 1997 and 2001. (4) The pipes are about 42 years old and have suffered the extreme conditions of the triple meltdown accident. TEPCO has not proposed any plan for dealing with this issue.

Radioactive decontamination following last year's nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has not been completed at more than 80 percent of homes.

Japan's environment ministry studied the progress of government-funded removal of radioactive substances being undertaken by 58 cities, towns and villages in 7 prefectures around Fukushima as of the end of August.

It says work had been completed at 69 percent of educational facilities such as schools and childcare centers that were scheduled for decontamination.

TOKYO — The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) have announced plans to remove 1,533 fuel assemblies from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant No. 4 reactor by 2014, a year ahead of schedule.

The change in schedule was announced in response to concerns that the building currently suspending the spent fuel pool above No. 4 reactor may be structurally unsound, NTV reported Tuesday.

TEPCO in June reported that the building was tilting and bulging in several places, causing fears that it could collapse, dumping thousands of fuel rods into the earth.

According to TEPCO, the No. 4 reactor was offline when the tsunami struck on March 11, 2011. As a result, 202 fresh fuel assemblies and 1,331 spent fuel assemblies were placed into the pool before the meltdowns occurred. Each assembly contains 50 to 70 rods. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

IWAKI — Japan’s election campaign kicked off Tuesday with leaders of the two biggest parties in Fukushima, setting the tone for a poll likely to be dominated by the future of nuclear power after last year’s atomic disaster. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

Three Japanese utilities said Tuesday that 28 canisters of high-level radioactive waste produced through the reprocessing of their spent nuclear fuel in Britain will be returned to Japan around February.

It will be the third time that vitrified radioactive waste will be brought back from Britain. Japan's spent fuel has also been handled in France, but all of the high-level radioactive waste created there had been transferred to Japan by 2007. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

A recent survey of workers at the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station indicated questionable hiring practices, with nearly half saying they received work assignments from companies other than those paying them wages, and some asked to falsely state their employers. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

Three Japanese utilities said Tuesday that 28 canisters of high-level radioactive waste produced through the reprocessing of their spent nuclear fuel in Britain will be returned to Japan around February.

It will be the third time that vitrified radioactive waste will be brought back from Britain. Japan's spent fuel has also been handled in France, but all of the high-level radioactive waste created there had been transferred to Japan by 2007. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

The raw water pumps (AC-10A/B/C/D) base plate support anchors were discovered by Fort Calhoun Station personnel to have inadequate embedment to support existing analysis. Plant drawing specify a j-bolt type of anchor with a required 16 inch embedment. Actual plant configuration was found to be a j-bolt type anchor with a 9 inch embedment. [link to www.nucpros.com] .